Tom Herzing: Freud went ahead and ruined superheroes

6:11 PM,
Feb. 4, 2014

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Tom Herzing

Drat you, Sigmund Freud! Before you came along, life was simple. Nobody chatted about his obsessive-compulsive disorder while drinking my gin, nobody asked too much about how we got along with our moms, and a cigar was just a cigar.

Sure, you've helped society a lot: TSA is able to spot paranoid schizophrenics by watching how they pull dollar bills from their wallets, and folks suffering from delusional disorders can now be gainfully employed as political commentators. But you have ruined the world of superheroes. Totally.